After many long weeks, not to mention Saturday and Sundays (Thanks going to our TSO) working on my final year project, today is the day where we get to move into the main exhibition tentage! My team’s project was not really fully completed yet and we wanted to go in early so we can use up the rest of the day to finish it up. Also given the instructions to go in early. Little do we know that upon moving in first thing in the morning, no one is actually there yet! Whoa we are few of the first!

I cannot reveal much of my project at the moment, so I am pretty vague at the moment, what you should know is that it’s a freakin’ cool gaming motion simulator for the SP open house cum Spinnovex Exhibition.

Got about the whole morning setting up the booth and testing our simulator spanning into the evening, well, till the security had to chase us out at 6pm as they are closing up the place.

Spinnovex 2008 main tentage

Inside the tent, time to fill da spaces!

Moving all our projects in

Being in the main tentage, we definitely have lots to deliver, not to mention meeting lots of expectations and being under the scrutiny of the judges, industry leaders and general public.

For today, I am quite satisfied with the project. We got “interviewed” by some of the staff members who are looking for projects to be featured in the media and papers. Moreover, we also did a live demonstration to our Japanese professors we got to know last year who are visiting again. Even our supervisor was pleased with our progress so far. All I can say, our project did really attract quite alot of attention in the tent, even passer bys- it’s kinda pressurizing but otherwise good attention I guess as a whole. I believe my team will pull through together the whole exhibition with our system without any problems. I have all trust in them and in our work.

The Spinnovex 2008 exhibition will be open this Wednesday to trade visitors only, it will be open to the public this Thursday onwards to Saturday, so do pay us a visit at the SP open house this week!

Sorry for the unexpected redirection to a parked domain at some point of the day today. Laughingly, one of my site advertising agents, Advertlets.com has expired on 04-Jan-2008 and all site’s showing their ads will be forced redirected to a parked domain page which amusingly some body took and parked.

Lol. How can a company run a business and not forget to renew their domains? This completely show their dedication to their job, or maybe they didn’t expect the businesss to last more than one year, so why not save another $15 bucks on domain registration?

The problem on this site had been fixed by removing all their ads on the site. This is absurd, Advertlets should compensate those affected for the downtime and lost revenue caused on their site.

Cleared my 2007 IPPT window period today. Glad I didn’t get that pass with incentive like what I’ve got my previous year. Not that I’ve actually taken IPPT at other camps or even the Safra gyms, but I come to appreciate the route at Maju as well. I always like doing my IPPT in there, the running route there is very much better and flat.

Good thing it didn’t rain today, recalling my last 2 desperate visits the previous year being always pouring with rain and last minute cancellations of the 2.4km run, but not this time round.

As usual, the station which always pulls my result back will have to be my standing board jump, the only one with 3 points. I did one jump in Mizuno wave creation 8, giving 221cm, but other 2nd jump in my Asics DS trainer gave that additional few centimeters to secure my silver at 225cm, besides haivng double the incentive just like my active days. This goes to show how shoe length can play is shaving off the cms, in my case wear smaller light weight racers and switch back to your larger cushioning shoe for the remaining stations.

I am still surprised how did I jumped so low today, 230+ was not a problem for me before, strange. It may be borged, but I won’t blame the electronic IPPT machine for giving my such low scores, after all a bad carpenter blame his tools.

I like to always talk about and emphasize that, standing board jump is all about technique and nothing much on muscles explosiveness, despite what it’s defined technically to test. Actually knowing the right way to launching positions your feet on the landing have up to 70-80% more effect than muscular strength, which the average physically fit person will have more than enough of. The best way to train to to keep jumping. Generally I do that midway my long runs in the park, so your body will get it’s locomotion and sync more adapted when you need too, contrary to doing it only once a year for many…

Mmmm Silver, come to think about it, I will still get a silver even if I get 5 points for all stations, as a timing of 9:45 and below is required for Gold in the army. Getting Gold for your napfa in school at the same standard will only give you a Silver in the army!

And now to restart the counter for the new year!

Happy New Year 2008! Many happy returns! Wishing you all the best in health and success in all endeavors for the new year!

Last but not least, here is a video I’ve shot from the segment of the night’s fireworks at the Marina Bay Front, near one Fullerton, enjoy!